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Workers who hold a firm's stock make decisions other than those that pure capital owners would make, but there exist institutions and compensation packages that will generally lead workers to favor efficient firm decisions. Workers care about their firm-specific rents and may seek shares in...
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work on shareholders and shareholder activism, directors, executives and their compensation, controlling shareholders …
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an information ea between management and outside shareholders. In the presence of such a gap, maximizing short-run and … actions that will reduce long-run value. In such a case, management faces the dilemma of which shareholders to please: those …
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important in curbing these private benefits. A high degree of statutory protection of minority shareholders and high degree of …
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managers, institutional investors, small shareholders, auditors, and other parties involved in corporate governance. The lower …
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This paper studies the corporate governance and asset pricing implications of investors owning blocks in multiple firms. Common wisdom is that multi-firm ownership weakens governance because the blockholder is spread too thinly. We show that this need not be the case. In a single-firm benchmark,...
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GIM Index or the proportion of activist shareholders. Following these special meetings, we find that the next quarter …
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position to benefit themselves at the expense of minority shareholders -- were endemic to corporations in the late …, however, was to give controlling shareholders the power to extract more than their fair share of their enterprise's profits …
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shareholders from the complex, pyramidal, and often obscure corporate structures. First, we show that there are large differences …
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wealth maximization derived from shareholders' status as residual claimants are vulnerable on several fronts. Share … quasirents, expected earnings beyond expected costs of capital from investors, to which shareholders have no obvious claim. Other … stakeholders – entrepreneurial founders or CEOs, employees, employees, customers, suppliers, communities or governments, having …
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